Wet Winter Wreaks Havoc on Feeding System!
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
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wraped silage bales is working good all year
I can’t even imagine how tired you are at night. Stay safe.
Kip, if you would run your unloader more level in the silo it would keep the walls clean..crowning the center pulls it away from the edge of the silo and causes the wall build up
I think it's inevitable with the deep freeze & thaw and high dew point?! I'm guessing it got stuck n dug a hole!
When it's that cold it doesn't matter what you do. It sticks on the wall and gets wider as you lower it. Eventually it gets hung up.
Can’t run them flat. You need some crown or it won’t run because the transmission will start to drag.
Only way you can run them flat is with a surface drive unloader
That's Michigan for you. Don't like the weather, stick around it will change. Have seen it sunny and 50 at noon, and below freezing and a couple of inches of snow by dinner.
Another great video!
Hi mr kip you have nice cows and calefs and bulls
It seems like bunk silo"s are the way to go. Upright silo"s are a young man"s thing. Feeding the milking cows may have to be redesigned. If a mixer wagon could unload onto the silo conveyor, with some alteration, that may, still be used.
I've never spread plastic over the silage in an upright silo. Never had a foot thick crust of mold to mix into the feed with an upright. Never seen a few electric motors do a days worth of feeding with a
bunk silo either.
I agree 💯 bunkers are just a pain to deal with better off staying with the uprights
Every year you get older the more you’re going to hate that feeding system. Hopefully the weather changes for the better.
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊
I run 17 silos on 5. Farms and the only one that climb them the Last 40 years and still like them
Those silos seem to be a real pain for you ! I feel for you ! Stay safe climbing those things !!
I Don't miss them cement silos, keep err going Kip, let's go!
50 years ago they had a tool to hold the chain while you hammer the links apart because the old manure spreader s used that type chain for the apron chain
Still do
Pendal chain yes they make a wrench
NOT pintle chain
I TOTALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO KIP 😊
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Suggestion, build awning above stall fasteners out long enough to get water far enough out from building if possible. No need to reburm soil and have to remove to r&r stalls.
Manure spreader stamped apron chain
Every farm in America could use another 2 or 3 farm hands working at everything that never gets done.
The sooner you get rid of the silos the better... Seems you're the only who works on them. Not getting any younger😊❤. Good luck and God look after you and keep you safe.❤🙏
Great video Kip. Thanks!
Hang in there buddy!!! The weather can test a guys mental health
I just watched the 10th generation dairy video on utube . They are redoing there feeding systems. It might be worth watching. I saw it and thought of your operation.
What a simp
They make a tool for taking those links apart, you probably have the same chains on your chopper boxs
Back when I worked on the farm in the 70s and 80s, we called it roller chain.Stay safe, and God bless .
Brrrrrrrrrr , I'm cold just watching you from my Southern Florida Home Office, phew !!!
I'm from Michigan ( Frozen North ) while trying to cope with not going swimming because it's only 73F here .
It's not the wet weather thats the problem it's the extreme cold that is our problem with unloaders! That chain is a Flat chain!
Love your channel from farming to dairy content and I respect how hard you work keep up the good work and God bless
My dad had one of those chain detacher tools.Used it on corn picker and bale elevator.Worked great!
Herschel
Man those little cat front end loaders you clean barns and haul sand with are little work horses aren't they!
Looks like no.55 chain.
OUR BACK BARN WOULD FLOOD BECAUSE THE WALL WOULD LEAK WATER THROUGH IT'S ALWAYS WAS A NIGHTMARE KIP SIEGLER. HOPE EVERYTHING IS GOING OK
My Dad taught us that tool is called a Banging thing. lol, Actually called a chain detacher, and they are only about $30 to buy the tool, Started using one when I was about 12 to take apart the chains on the old Big Dutchman poultry feeder chains. Little bit of maintenance to the wear items keeps them running!
I was so glad when I got Patz unloaders so that the silage wouldn't freeze on the walls.
I did the silos for thirty years when they work all goes well frozen feed is part of the process just takes more time with the upright silos very little waste always be safe working
There are problems with all systems for storing but I think silos are the most dangerous. When I was young and lived on a farm we had no silos. My dad always warned me to never go in one. Too many people die either repairing or just using them. They were all we knew for so many years and now we know how unsafe they are. I see you taking the lead and being in charge of those silos and I don’t see you teaching the next generation. It just goes to show your character and wisdom. Better they don’t know and then you can make plans for a less dangerous system. You are such a good man in all you do. Please be careful and get the farm moving toward a safer system. Love your channel from an old farm girl.
You have tim hortons down there? Thought that was a Canadian thing
Been there did that
Back in the seventies winters were a lot colder Remember chipping frozen corn silage on north and east side silo Cold weather for 4 to 6 weeks of cold Some spots up 6 inches got to a point unloader wouldn't go around in Ontario Canada near Lake Huron
Thanks for another great video Kip.
It was most interesting.
Wow. The wet moist weather is not helping you Kip. Do not know at your age how you keep up with it Kip. My compliments for how you keep it all going.
The silo is a hard manual labor intensive item to keep going in this weather. Hang in there.
Your long belt feeding system does not like the weather either. Getting the chain adjusted on the feeding belt takes time and labor also. The wet weather is not helping you Kip.
You take care of yourself in this wet
Weather also.
The silo work is hard also where the unloading equipment has trouble getting it off the silo walls. You have it mastered but I worry about you the older you get. Take care of yourself.
How did you come out on the number of cows that were pregnant or not pregnant???????
Got a lot of calves coming???????
Busy time for all of you. Winter weather doubled your work it seems.
Hang in there all of you. Thinking of you. Been there done that myself many years ago. Not easy the older you get.
Thanks for everything Kip. You all take care and be safe. Worry about all of you in this weather.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
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My reason for installing ring drive silo unloaders! I really disliked the extra maintenance with ground drive unloaders.
Good job guys
God you don't wear a hat even in the winter time wow !!
It is above freezing but I'd still wear a cap
I definitely wouldn’t want to be the one to replace all that chain when it needs to be replaced
You ever using clean chute
just tap it in just tap it in he said, just tap-tap-tapperooo.....Happy Gilmore...lol
Tap that ass
You need a sweap to feed your cow
Silo unloaders have been just as bad too.
you needed a hammer to take that chain apart......... its the healthiest ive seen of those lol..... they usually just fall apart on the farms I've worked at
Sometime using the right tools make all the difference in the world. Tractor Supply Sku 1159763 Countryline 2/3 ft Cast -Iron Steel roller chain detacher. $19.99 is to correct tool to use on thiis type of Chain. Hope that helps.
Did dad ever finish harvest?
Is there cement or gravel under the sand? Our old barn had cement under the stalls because it had been renovated into a freestall barn. Always full of water after a heavy rain. Gravel underneath lets the water drain away
Kip.. Do you and your brothers have any plans to expand the dairy in the future?
Shearing that bolt up in The silo makes me think to ask do you have a magnetic plate the silage runs over?
Please tell me you shut off the power before working on that conveyor chain
Where I s your w d 40 😅
Hy
should have a chain tool by now instead of channel locks with all that machinery, read your comments from people who have been there, done that and you might learn something.
You guys need to think seriously about getting a TMR mixer
That type of chain is a pain in the buttocks to get apart and put back together especially if it’s on a manure spreader
Kip months from now you mit not want to says it's to wet like June july
With all due respect, safety first. Running any machine is dangerous and possible disaster can follow by tripping. A loose shoelace or a herat attack can get one ate up by any machine with no one around to shut it down. Eaglegards...
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